Max Hochdorf

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Max Hochdorf , pseudonyms : Aale Beust , Ayescha Begum (born March 18, 1880 in Stettin , † March 6, 1948 in Brussels ) was a German playwright , theater critic and journalist from Pomerania .

During the First World War, Hochdorf worked temporarily as a correspondent for the Berliner Tageblatt in Belgium, and during this time he wrote literary reviews for the magazine Sozialistische Monatshefte , which Joseph Bloch edited in Berlin. In 1920 he received his doctorate from the University of Friborg (Switzerland ) with a study on Gottfried Keller . In addition to his own writing work, Hochdorf later also worked as a correspondent and employee of various daily newspapers, for example as a theater critic for Vorwärts . As an opponent of the National Socialists, he had no more work opportunities in Germany since 1933, which is why he emigrated to Belgium and went into hiding under a false name from 1941 to 1944. His places of activity were Stettin , Berlin and Brussels .

Hochdorf was a Freemason in the Berlin lodge "Friedrich Ludwig Schröder".

Works

  • Darkness. Novellas. Fleischel, Berlin 1908.
  • The dreams of Nathalie Braunstein. Novel. 1912.
  • The last act of Jean Jaurès. Berlin [1919].
  • Gottfried Keller in the European idea. Zurich 1919.
  • On the spiritual image of Gottfried Keller. Zurich 1919.
  • The German stage cooperative. Fifty years of history. Written on behalf of the German Stage Members' Cooperative. Potsdam 1921.
  • The Kant book. Immanuel Kant's life and teaching. Berlin 1924. Reprint: Braunschweig 2004.
  • Images of God. Berlin 1930.
  • Rosa Luxemburg. The life of a revolutionary. Berlin [1930].
  • August Bebel. History of a Political Reason. Berlin 1932.

Newspaper articles

  • Habima Hebrew Theater. In: Forward. Evening edition of October 2, 1926, p. 2.
  • Jeßner . In: Forward. Evening edition of December 14, 1926, p. 2.
  • The adventure of the three women. In: Berliner Tageblatt. Evening edition of January 2, 1915, p. 4.

literature

  • Hochdorf, Max. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish authors . Volume 12: Hirs – Jaco. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22692-2 , pp. 116-122.
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 (with portrait photo).
  • Wilhelm Kosch: German Theater Lexicon. Volume 1. Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt 1953.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss : Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 2. Saur, Munich 1983.
  • Walther Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 5. Saur, Munich [u. a.] 1997.
  • Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: International Freemasons Lexicon. 5th edition. Herbig, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7766-2478-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hochdorf, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beust, eels (pseudonym); Begum, Ayescha (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, foreign correspondent, theater critic, playwright and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1948
Place of death Brussels